Pinchers



E. & J. BROTHERS.

PINGHERS.

No. 278,680. Patented June 5,1883.

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NIT D STATES ELI BROTHERS AND J S PH BROTHERS, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PINCHERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,680, dated June 5,1883.

Application filed January 1883. (No model.)

To alllvhom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ELI BEoTHEHs and JosErH BROTHERS, of Lynn, in thecounty of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Pinchers, of which the following is a descriptionsufiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which said invention appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspectiveview representing the pinchers closed, and showing the cutting-nippersand channel-openers; and Fig. 2, a view representing the opposite sideof the pinchers to that shown in Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawings.

Our invention relates more especially to that class of pinchers used byshoe-makers in lasting boots and shoes and it consists in a novelconstruction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed, by which a more desirable and effective article ofthis character is produced than is now in ordinary use. l

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understoodby all conversant with such matters from the following e planation, itsextreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, A B represent the handles; 0 D, the jaws E, the hammer,and H the poll.

The handle A and jaw D and the handle B and jaw G are respectivelyintegral, and j ointed in the usual manner at K. The poll H is magnetized'to attract and hold the tacks or nails used in lasting, and isprovided with a semicircular lndentation, X, in its rear portion,

.over the joint K, as shown.

A pair of cutting-jaws, M, are disposed in the throat of the pinchers,near the joint K, a

groove or indentation, on, being formed in each' of the jaws O D,immediately opposite the nippers, to form a discharge-orifice for theescape of nails, wire, 850., out off by the nippers.

Near the outer or free end of the handle A i there is alaterally-projecting conical projection, (I, designed for raising thechannel-flap and opening the channel in the soles of boots and shoes.This operation is usually performed by means of a special tool for thatpurpose, the use of which necessitates the laying down of thelasting-pinchers by the workman. In our improved pinchers this objectionis obviated, the flap of the channel being readily raised without layingdown the tool.

In lasting boots and shoes the lasting-tacks are usually held in themouth of the workman, and are taken from the month by the hand, startedinto the sole or overlapping upper, and driven home by the hammer of thepinchers. This operation is not a convenient one to perform withoutlaying down the pinchers, and

ize the poll H of our improved pinchers, sothat when the same ispresented to the head of a tack protruded from the mouth of the workmanthe tack will adhere to the poll, and may be conveniently driven intotheshoe in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicitdescription.

It also sometimes occiu-s, in lasting, that a iently grasped by the jawsO D. To provide for this is the object of the curved indentation X, thepoll H being placed fiat on the shoe, adjoining the tack, and pushedunder the head of the same in such a manner as to bring the .body of thetack into said indentation, after which it may be readily drawn bylifting the handles A B. The cutting jaws or nippers M are also designedmore especially for cutting off the lasting-tacks close to the work, asoccasion may require. c

From the foregoing it will be seen that our improved pinchers embody ina convenient and co-operative form a pinchers proper, ordinarypinchers-hammer, magnetic tack-hammer, tack-puller, cutting-nippers, andchannel;opener.

Having thus explained our invention, what we claim is 1. Alasting-pinchers the jaws of which are provided with the laterally-projecting cuttingblades M, and with transverse recesses m, ex-

to obviate its principal objections we magnet tack has to be drawn whichcannot be conventending from said blades to the opposite side adap tedto receive and hold the Eat tacks, subof the pinehers, forming areceptacle for the stantiallyas described.

cut off tacks, substantially as described.

2. A lasting-pinehers having two jaws, a 5 hammer, and a poll, said jawsbeing provided ELI BROTHERS. JOSEPH BROTHERS.

with laterally-projecting cutting-bladea and WVitnesses i withtransverse recesses m m, extending from A. 13. FLONDERs, said blades tothe opposite side of the jaws, V. F. GRAY;

